The reprieve is for USA retailers to restock their shelves or to do stockpiling while the 90 days truce is still in force. There is no way that retailers in USA can find alternative sources of supplies elsewhere - not from any other sources with that same capacity and not from just hyping up USA's internal manufacturing mantra which is just building castles in the air.
Sure, Chinese factories are again humming along, but they are now seeking and producing for alternative markets, having learnt a lesson from Trump's delusional behavior. 90 days truce may come and go, and uncertainties still abound. Will the Chinese supplies continue thereafter is the question for USA retailers. There are still mountains of uncertainties left unresolved and thinking that the tariff war is over is delusional. China must never ever trust the USA to uphold its side of the deal, certainly not the words of a man-child that changes his mind day in and day out. Even trade agreements with Canada and Mexico have been thrown into the dustbin by Trump, so what is to become of the 90 days truce when it runs out.
China has learnt useful lessons from Trump's first term by attempting to use trade wars to cripple China. What did China do during that trade war? China retaliated and started seeking more trade links with other countries and meanwhile started to source for supplies like agricultural products from Brazil, Argentina and Russia to compensate for the decline in USA agricultural products. China also diverted its energy needs to Russia, Iran and Venezuela. China also embarked on a national scale to adopt clean energy like EVs, built more dams, installed more solar panels and wind turbines to be less reliant on fossil fuel. China also started building trade links and diverting exports to the Global South and helping countries with infrastructures to enable them to progress and will have the capacity to absorb Chinese products in the longer term.
Indonesia is going to benefit as well from trade with China opening up, especially farm products and perhaps energy. China was the first country that Indonesian President Prabowo visited after he took office and this was not incidental or without reason or intention.
Truth be told, USA farmers are still suffering and awaiting a slow death, with no return for exports to China ever coming back. Moreover, cost of keeping up the farm's operation will go up with the deportation of cheap undocumented workers. That is even provided USA workers are prepared to do the backbreaking jobs left behind by those immigrants.
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Trump's delusional comments trying to claim credit for the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, by claiming the use of trade measures, has been slammed by the Indians. The Indian Government, not mentioning Modi by name, dismantled Trump's claim, saying that there was nothing about Trump's claim of involvement in or on trade was ever discussed leading to the truce. It was all happening in Trump's mind, trying to claim credit where credit is not due. How he could lie in front of a global audience is really mind boggling. Modi meanwhile is not trying to overstep Trump to claim credit for the truce by coming out personally to comment on Trump's hijacking of his claim to fame, for bringing about the truce that he himself desperately needs to elevate his ego. That shows how Trump has really trampled him into a flat pancake, even ignoring his attempt to salvage his tanking ego.
Trump is probably and desperately trying to influence and garner support and credit to claim the Nobel Peace Prize, looking at what he is doing, but totally failing to settle the war in Ukraine within 24 hours, and now trying to salvage credit over the India/Pakistan conflict. Trump believes in the warped mental state of his mind that the world would just swallow all the lies that comes out of his mouth. Trump even claims he singlehandedly averted a 'bad nuclear war' between India and Pakistan. What is the difference between a 'bad nuclear war' and a 'good nuclear war' in Trump's sick mind is difficult to comprehend. And Trump was gloating about all this in front of an audience during his trip to the Middle East.
Like Biden in his final days in office, Trump is crumbling right before our eyes. He is mentally sick, morally decadent as he always was but more so now, totally unaware of what is working and what is not. He is not making USA great again. He is making China even greater.
With the bird flu now ravishing the USA, Trump needs to issue an executive order to demand those hens not affected by the bird flu to lay more eggs.
Trump’s single celled brain only knows the words good and bad. He can't handle any more words.
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